Are you proud of what you believe in?Do you ever have doubts?

Question

This goes to all religons

Answer 1

I'm proud of what I DON'T believe in. No Doubts, No Jesus.

Answer 2

Pride doesn't really come into it for me but rather truth. I am more concerned that what I believe is the truth. People can waste a lot of time chasing after a religion of their own creation or man made religion but if its not true then what have they gained?

We can spend time worshiping ourselves, creation or other things but at the end of the day one man claimed that He was the Way, the Truth and the Life and after studying these claims and the evidence to back them up I'm satisfied that this was true.

Everyone has doubts at first but this is what makes peoples faith stronger. When they are prepared to seek until they find the Truth. If you have questions and can answer each one with a good satisfying answer then doubts become rock solid faith. Its good to ask questions and I've found that since I studied christianity I've found it to be intellectually satisfying and I have been provided with sound answers to any doubts I have had.

Answer 3

Very proud. I'm a gnostic (you know, Lucifer is the great goddess and Yahweh the OT god is a demented mad scientist who created the universe by mistake and a slave driver and very ignorant of the gods above him and he thinks he's the only god and demands worship). I think most of it is bullshit but those guys were great thinkers, logical, very sensible and most importantly they were *honest*. The religion is corrupted like every other of course, I have great doubts about Christianity, both mainstream and the original gnostic (Jesus was a gnostic) which is far less corrupted. I think doubt is good, after all, if this god being who probably doesn't exist wanted his creatures to be sure then he'd provide a wee-bit of evidence. As it is there's zero.

Answer 4

Yes, I think if your not proud of what you believe in then perhaps you shouldn't believe in it right?
Doubts? To tell the truth no, I don't know everything but the things I do know I have no doubts.

Answer 5

I'm not proud of what I believe, but I am proud about how I came to believe it. I analyzed the evidence as objectively as I can, regardless of personal consequence.

That seems noble to me, and I'm the one I'm held accountable to.

Regarding doubt, yes, I live in a state of doubt. I cherish it.

Answer 6

I am very proud of what I believe in, because it took most of my life to come to what I believe today. I searched and studied long and hard before coming to my personal philosophy. I was a Baptist, a Congregationalist, a Mormon and studied with Jehovah's Witnesses for five years. None of them could answer the questions I had and none could make sense of the quagmire of conflicting and contradictory messages of the Bible. I had doubts for many years. Now I'm at peace with my beliefs.

Answer 7

I believe in life and of course I have doubts because every day has its ups and downs but i find the strength in my belief in MYSELF to get through it...as far as religion is concerned maybe I'll be a firm believer if I ever experience a miracle but until then I rely on my heart.

Answer 8

I sometimes have doubts, but usually, science serves only to reinforce my faith in the Gods and nature.

I'm very proud to be Pagan. Today I learned about a kind of pine tree, the Wollemi Pine, that was thought to be extinct. In 1994, a very small stand of them was found, and now they are being (very gently) cut and bred from slips.

My religion, the worship of Gods long ago thought to be dead mythology, was considered extinct. But there are a few of us, and we are coming back, just like that Wollemi Pine. I'm very proud to be part of that.

Answer 9

Pride is not part of it. But I have no shame in it. I do not falter on my beliefs. I am not scared of others finding out what I believe. If they feel threatened that is on them.
When I got saved, my sister in law who at the time was my bestfriend, got so mad and said that "oh now you will be judging me" etc..
I never did but she has judged me ever since on every move i make.
If I didn't want my daughters to be part of somethign I didn't feel was appropriate for children, she threw my religion in my face.
I always let it go. She battles herself inside I believe, I am just her scapegoat.

No doubts at all.
But, also not closed minded that I can learn many things from many people.

Answer 10

I am Proud to Know the True God. This is sure in my mind and heart. I use to have some doubts but now realize that Satan causes these doubts to come into our minds hindering us from the truth that will and does set us free .

Answer 11

I'm very, very glad you asked this question... good going.

Yes, yes... I’m absolutely pleased and secure in my belief.

I'm an atheist and I have been for a long, long time. I began with doubts, coming from a family of Christian belief but not practicing in any formal way since one parent was Lutheran and the other was Catholic. I was immediately aware of the fact that minor discord between the faiths, even between faiths as closely related as my parents beliefs were, was enough to cause nit-picking and jealousy and petty arguments. I knew I wanted no part of that and began finding my own way. Very soon in my life I became agnostic - I asked questions of every belief, I looked them over one by one and almost became attached to Buddhist philosophy as the most sensible approach to my ongoing search for the truth - I still find Buddhism fascinating although culturally it leaves me feeling like I would never ever fit in entirely - it is so Eastern in it's ways and symbolism, and it’s language is cumbersome.

I came firmly into atheism as an adult, and grew to became very comfortable that I had made the correct decision for myself; I gained in confidence year by year, until, I finally stopped to realize that I truly felt so completely comfortable in my belief, that God, Gods, Devils, and whatnot, were all mere hoaxes. It was then that I began to speak out to others about how secure I felt in my atheist philosophy and about how I hoped they would each begin their own search for the truth through reason and fact.

I have grown even more so in confidence over the past ten years that I have come to feel there is just one reasonable faith on the planet (faith in the absence of deities) which is in complete harmony with representative forms of government - atheism.

I am so pleased to call myself atheist and I proudly continue to adapt my philosophy in the direction of truth according to the most probable, reasonable, factual and believable evidence that mankind can offer. I strive to keep my path steadily moving toward a goal of utopia for all mankind which as I see it can only come out a predominantly atheist population.

Doubts..? No, I have none when the question is in regard to weather or not there are or have been Gods - my doubts are only over the smaller questions where truth has not yet revealed itself satisfactorily, over questions like: Will the missing link between man and ape ever be exposed well enough to satisfy that question beyond a reasonable doubt? and What is the physical nature of conscientiousness?

And once again... thanks for the chance to answer this very good question. Answering it has been my pleasure.

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